On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen wrote: > > Suggest removing the unsupported character encoding statement from this > sentence. The spec should say that when an unknown character encoding is > used the UA should assume UTF-8 and move on with parsing.
Absolutely not. That would violate the XML specifications. > This is what Opera and FireFox do (consistently) and what IE does but > only for responseText. IE creates an empty responseXML document if > charset is unknown. What IE does is much closer to correct here. (I've saved off your e-mail for when I eventually look at XMLHttpRequest again, but I wanted to respond to the above straight away since it affects important aspects of browser conformance.) Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
